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    ed special studies , The programme for the academical year , which extends from 0 th November , 1826 , to the 24 th of May , 1827 , specifies the thirty-five courses , which compose the whole system of iastruction .

    They are distributed as follows , among the four faculties : —Theology . Dogma ' tical Theology , Professor Cheneviere;—Ecclesiastical History , Professor Vauchcr ; —Apologetical Theology , Professor D \ bby , to whom is also consigned the Lectures on Pulpit Eloquence ;—Hebrew ,, Professor Cellesier , who takes also Sacred Antiquities and Biblical Criticism .

    —Law . Roman Law , Professor Rossi , who takes also Criminal Legislation ;—Modern Civil Law , Professor Bellot ;—Commercial Law , Professor Rigaud . — Sciences . Common Studies . Natural History , ( Elements of Botany , ) Professor De Candolle;—( the course on the Elements of Natural History continues two years ; the second of which is devoted to

    Zoology ) ;—Physics aud Experimental Chemistry , Professor De La Kive ;—Rational Philosophy and Social Philosophy , Professor Choisy;—Mathematics , Professor Pascalis ;—Mechanics , Professor Maurice . Special Studies . Organic Na * tural History , Professor De Candolle;—Mineralogy aud Geology , Professor

    Necker;—Experimental Physics , Professor De La Rive;—Astronomy , Professor Gautier;—Mathematics , Professor Pascalis . There are promised for the « nsmng year a course of Mathematics superior to this , and a course of Analytical Mechanics and of Mathematical Physics . Belles Lettres . Common Studies . Geueral Belles

    Lettres and Archaiology , Professor Boissier;—Greek and Latin Literature , Profs . Duvillard and Conte ;^ -History , Prof . Conte;—Preparatory courses of Mathematics , Profs . Choisy and Maurice . Special Studies . History of the Fine Arts * Prof . Boissier;—Greek Literature , Prof . Duvillard ;—Medals , Prof . Picot;—Arabic Language , Professor Humbert . Besides this winter course , the programme

    mentions preparatory summer courses , which last rather more than a month ; the subjects embraced by these are the French language , Latin literature , elementary mathematics , topography and surveying . Tile Academy confers

    Bachelors' and Doctors' Degrees . The first may be obtained in the Sciences or in the Belles Lettres , after having prosecuted the common studies . The titles of Minister of the Gospel , or Doctor , are granted after examinations and trials to the students of the several faculties . — Revue Encyclopddique .

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    The following particulars were Communicated by the Council of State at Geneva to the Council of Representatives during its last sessions , in a report on thfe subject of public instruction . The number of students attached to the Academy increases every year , ft educates at present 194 , distributed as follows iti their Halls :

    Hall of Total . Theology , 35 regular , 1 day student 36 Law 21 5 26 Philosophy 46 36 82 Belles Let . 42 8 50

    144 50 194 The College of Geneva contains usually nearly the same number of scholars . At present there are 457 . The two primary schools contain 66 young persons ; another school , called that of St . Germain , 50 . The Lancasterian classes , which are three in number , received in June , 1825 , 324 boys and 138 girls . The mutual

    instruction in music is continued with great success . It is to be recollected , in perusing this document , that the Canton of Geneva contains a population of only from 40 , 000 to 45 , 000 souls . The proportion , therefore , between the population and individuals admitted to the benefits of education is very favourable .

    The instruction given at the Geneva Academy was originally intended to be confined to Theology aud Law . Subsequently to the re-establishment of the Republic , the government formed the plan of gWing increased consequence to

    scientific and literary studies , which had been considered merely as accessories : for this purpose new professorships were created . But . the experience of a few years evinced that this first measure was not sufficient . On the one hand , this extension of instruction in literature and

    the sciences was made at the expense of those who did not want to n \ ake tUem the object of deep study . On the other , the plan did not wholly satisfy those whose taste led them to the cultivation of those branches . Measures have been taken to remove these objections . On the recommendation of the Academical

    Body , the Council of State has this year sanctioned a new organization of the Academy . Four faculties are now established , those of Theology , Law , the Sciences , and the Belles Lettres . The two latter comprise two kinds of courses , those of the first and second years ; which arc called common studies ; and those of the third and fourth years , which arc call-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1827, page 143, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1793/page/63/